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Habit Herbs short-lived perennial, glandular puberulent; from a stout taproot. Herbs perennial, rarely annual, sometimes suffrutescent, caulescent; from a stout to slender taproot.
Stems

1–many, unbranched to densely branched, decumbent to erect, 4–53 cm.

decumbent to ascending or erect, branched or unbranched, epidermis gray to brown, ± exfoliating.

Leaves

0.7–4.6 × 0.1–1.2 cm, sometimes fascicles of small leaves 0.2–1.5 cm present in non-flowering axils;

petiole 0–0.2 cm;

blade linear to ovate or obovate, base attenuate, margins entire, apex acute.

cauline, 0.3–9 cm, fascicles of small leaves often present in larger leaf axils;

blade margins entire or subentire, serrate, or serrulate, sometimes spinulose.

Inflorescences

solitary flowers in axils of distal leaves.

Flowers

usually several per stem opening per day near sunrise;

buds with free tips 0.5–2 mm;

floral tube 5–25(–33) mm, funnelform in distal 1/2 or more;

sepals 3–13 mm;

petals yellow, fading pale pink or pale purple, 5–20(–25) mm;

filaments 1–6 mm, anthers 2–7 mm, pollen 85–100% fertile;

style 9–30(–40) mm, stigma yellow, quadrangular, usually exserted beyond anthers.

opening near sunset or sunrise, sometimes in afternoon, usually with a sweet scent;

buds erect, terete or quadrangular, with free tips;

floral tube 2–60(–70) mm;

sepals flat or with keeled midribs, reflexed individually;

petals yellow, usually fading dark yellow, orange, pale pink, or pale purple, suborbiculate to rhombic or obcordate;

stigma usually yellow to yellow-green, blue-black in O. capillifolia subsp. capillifolia, peltate, discoid to quadrangular, sometimes shallowly 4-lobed.

Capsules

8–20 × 1.5–2.5 mm, hard, promptly dehiscent throughout their length.

woody and hard to thin and ± papery, straight, cylindrical to obtusely 4-angled, often tapering at each end, dehiscent 1/2 to throughout their length;

sessile.

Seeds

obovoid, 1–1.4 mm.

usually numerous, in 2 rows per locule, usually obovoid and somewhat angled, rarely oblanceoloid, surface smooth.

2n

= 14.

= 14 (28).

Oenothera tubicula subsp. tubicula

Oenothera sect. Calylophus

Phenology Flowering Apr–Aug.
Habitat Colonial, primarily on limestone soil, in flat arid grasslands, with Larrea and Yucca.
Elevation 600–1400 m. (2000–4600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
NM; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas)
w North America; Mexico; c North America
Discussion

Subspecies tubicula is known from Guadalupe County, New Mexico, south in the western side of the Pecos River drainage to western Texas, where it occurs from Culberson County east to Howard County, thence south through Brewster, Presidio, and Terrell counties, and probably most of central Coahuila, to northern Zacatecas, southwestern Nuevo León, and southwestern Tamaulipas.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Species 7 (7 in the flora).

Section Calylophus consists of 7 species (13 taxa) classified in two subsections distributed throughout the Great Plains to Arizona and south to central Mexico with a center of diversity in Texas (H. F. Towner 1977). P. H. Raven (1964) separated Calylophus from Oenothera as treated by P. A. Munz (1965) based on its peltate stigma and unusual sporogenous tissue (Towner). The peltate stigma can now be more properly interpreted as a variation from the typical Oenothera stigma, with the indusium enlarged and the lobes reduced (W. L. Wagner et al. 2007). Molecular studies (R. A. Levin et al. 2004) strongly support both the inclusion of Calylophus within Oenothera and the monophyly of the section by inclusion of a species from each of the subsections. Subsequent detailed analyses (B. Cooper, unpubl.) indicate that subsect. Salpingia is not monophyletic with subsect. Calylophus nested within it, indicating that subsections may not be justifiable as currently defined. All species, except O. serrulata, are self-incompatible and outcrossing; flowers diurnal to vespertine, opening in the early morning or from midafternoon to near sunset, wilting in one and one-half to two days; those species with diurnal flowers are pollinated by bees [especially Halictidae (halictids) and Anthophoridae (anthophorids), often oligolectic species], those with larger vespertine flowers are pollinated by hawkmoths (Towner). The self-compatible O. serrulata is autogamous and a PTH species. Recent work (M. Moore, pers. comm.) suggests that there is additional edaphic endemism within sect. Calylophus, which is being investigated using morphology and molecular analyses (B. Cooper, unpubl.), and will likely result in detection of previously unknown species in the section.

Meriolix Rafinesque ex Endlicher 1840 is a superfluous name that pertains here.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Sepals with conspicuously keeled midribs; stamens in 2 unequal series, antisepalous filaments 2 times as long as antipetalous filaments 17b.
O. subsect. Calylophus
1. Sepals without keeled midribs; stamens in subequal series 17b.
O. subsect. Salpingia
Source FNA vol. 10. FNA vol. 10.
Parent taxa Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera > sect. Calylophus > subsect. Salpingia > Oenothera tubicula Onagraceae > subfam. Onagroideae > tribe Onagreae > Oenothera
Subordinate taxa
O. subsect. Calylophus, O. subsect. Salpingia
Synonyms Galpinsia carlsbadiana, O. tubicula var. demissa, O. ×serrulatoides Calylophus, O.
Name authority unknown (Spach) W. L. Wagner & Hoch: Syst. Bot. Monogr. 83: 147. (2007)
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